John Tyler Marriage to Belinda Ruck 12/25/1863 (General)

by rookancestrybest , United Kingdom, Friday, September 11, 2009, 22:25 (5626 days ago) @ Searcher99

I have family who emigrated to the United States from the Forest of Dean area and they were called Rook or Rooke (Ruk is another spelling as is Ruck). I also have Tylors/Tylers, including at least two called John in my family tree. I am wondering whether there is a connection? Particularly as iron working (blacksmith) and mining were also what this family did. My relatives, emigrated to Poughkeepsie (up state New York) in 1848 arriving on a boat called The Cosmo which docked in New York. I have found out about the boat from using my local library's subscription to Ancestry.com . The man was called Charles J Rook(e) and his wife was Ann Rook (also known as Ann Mary Rook nee Ann Mary
Ad[d]ams). Charles died 8 years after they emigrated aged only about 30 years. I have never found the cause of death. His wife, (who might also have been a distant relative to him) returned to England for a visit with her son (she had three sons and no daughters but the other two sons died as children) in 1868 because she inherited some money from a brother whom she described in a letter as "a misor". One of my Rook relatives was responsible for ensuring she gained what was due to her from this will. Two of her other brothers emigrated, one called George Addams in 1854. Ann was the housekeeper for a doctor who was very kind to her when she became a widow.
A number of their relatives and descendants were in Canton in Pennsylvania and others in other parts of Pennsylvania. Some of the family also moved to Buffalo in New York later on. The step son of the nephew of Charles Rook (also both called Charles) also emigrated to Buffalo in the 1920a.
When I looked at the census in that area in the 1800s a great number of the neighbours of the Adams' in Canton were either of Welsh or Irish origin.
I have researched the area around Poughkeepsie and there is a part of Duchess County (Poughkeepsie) which was called The Forest of Dean and from which the Poughkeepsie Iron Company worked. I have also found that there was the Forest of Dean Iron Co. in that part of the United States too.
I have noticed that there is an area around Cardiff called Canton so I am assuming that Canton was named after that. Though in Pennsylvania, the Canton in question, is only a few miles away from Poughkeepsie. My family appear to have married a number of people of Irish descent once they settled in the USA. I would be very interested if you are connected. If you are in the USA, I have sent scanned copies to the local library in Poughkeepsie (of original letters) from Ann Rook to my great-great-great grandfather and they are available for public viewing. One of them talks about how the whole town (Poughkeepsie) had celebrated the fact that the first transatlantic telegram had been sent from Queen Victoria to someone in Poughkeepsie.